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Architects: Cor & PartnersArea: 1,020 m²Year: 2011Photography: David FrutosLead Architects: Miguel Rodenas, Jesús OlivaresCity: AlgueñaCountry: Spain The Music Hall in Algueña, designed by Cor & Partners, transforms a former Guardia Civil Building in Alicante County into a multi-purpose cultural venue for music, completed in 2011. This project revitalizes a 670 m² area, adding an auditorium …
The site is a corner of the Bel Ebat fairground, on the edge of the historic town centre of Evreux …
The Małopolska Garden of Arts is a cross between two institutions: the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre and the Małopolska Voivodeship Library
The Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium follows on an international architecture competition won by architecture and design consortium Cardin Ramirez Julien + Ædifica
The Windhover Contemplative Center, designed by Aidlin Darling Design, is a spiritual retreat on the Stanford campus to promote and inspire personal renewal
Northeast of the urban fabric of the town of Llinars del Valles is the site on which the Auditorium Theatre of Llinars del Valles has been built
The architecture of the new Williamstown Library is inspired by the qualities and interaction of the natural and constructed landscape of historic Williamstown
On June 7th, Saint-Apollinaire Multifunctional Centre, designed by Parka – Architecture & Design, welcomed its first visitors
The museum design was guided by the study of the poetics of light, by harnessing the power of simplicity and essentialism, and by defining the visitor experience as a cinematic procession
How can a state-of-the-art philharmonic hall be combined with a major sustainability goal?
Winner in March 2012 of the competition organized by the City of Nantes : a building shared by the Conservatory of Nantes and the Academy of performing arts of Bretagne-Pays de la Loire
The group of buildings belonging to the Central Mills of Piracicaba represent an important landmark for the town
The building is conceived of as an anthropomorphic temple but in the Polynesian tradition of a Wharenui (meeting house) with an identity in itself …
A top priority of the project was to preserve the concert auditorium as the iconic element of the original 1974 design while re-envisioning lobby and amenity areas
Embedded within the summit of Mount Kronplatz, 2,275m above sea level, the Messner Mountain Museum Corones is surrounded by the alpine peaks of the Zillertal, Ortler and Dolomites
The library is located along the seashore of China Bohai Bay
Dubai Design District, d3, was developed to provide a creative ecosystem that surpasses the expectations of a typical creative neighborhood
The form of the Cultural Centre design was determined by two elements: the first, the situation and an urban context of the object, the second, its function defined by the programme
Buildings life is normally difficult and complex. As time goes by, sometimes the fundamental aspects of them remain, but there are times …
Torre del Borgo is one of the most famous fortified buildings in the history of Bergamo.
The new Milan venue of the Fondazione Prada, seven years in the making and designed by OMA, opened to the press and on May 9 to the public
Arnhem Rozet is the new address for various cultural and educational institutions in Arnhem
The original architecture of the National Strasbourg University Library (BNU) was wilhelmian and reflected the historicism of the late 19th century with its symmetrical design and its very square layout
This low-budget museum is located at small village called Gasiri in Jeju island, the volcanic island in Korea. The villagers have initiated various cultural enterprise to boost local economy of the region and the horse museum is one of their main works whose goal is to attracts tourists. A doughnut shaped gallery space is elevated …
The extension to Frankfurt’s beloved Städel Museum, designed by schneider+schumacher and completed in February 2012, incorporates landscape, light, art, and subtle architecture.
Since the beginning of the modernist period, the concert house has been in crisis.
Offering the most advanced technology, the Slover Library designed by Newman Architects redefines how a public library is used
[Crossing dimensions of time] is a pavilion for outdoor photo exhibitions which is built in the middle of Seodaemun Independence Park in Seoul.
The building houses a mixed programme. It comprises premises for local teenagers, an extra-curricular centre for schoolchildren, a community hall …
Mari Ito / UAO won the competition of Komatsu city, Ishikawa to design a complex of science museum and communication center, which was constructed at the former factory site of leading company of construction and mining equipment, Komatsu Ltd.
Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transportation.
The basic idea of the design is to extend the ambience of the magnificent rock-face scenery to all parts of the theatrical arena so as to make it a more palpable and visual enveloping experience.
The Shed is a temporary venue for the National Theatre on London’s South Bank.
BIG with Kossmann.dejong+Rambøll+Freddy Madsen+KiBiSi have completed the Danish National Maritime Museum in Helsingør.
The Casa das Artes (House of the Arts) in Miranda do Corvo expresses the meeting between two identities, rural and urban, in a landscape marked by the Lousã Mountains.
soma’s design creates a new foyer and entrance topography to the Building Academy, and adapts an existing factory hall into a cultural venue.
This luxury hotel, Pousada de Cascais, is set within the walls of the historical fortress, the emblematic 16th century Citadel of Cascais, in the centre of Cascais.
…placement of the new auditorium creates a new central square within the overall structure of the Plantahof agriculture school..
Following an invited international competition in 2006, Allied Works was selected to design the Clyfford Still Museum, a single artist institution devoted to the life and work of the 20th-century painter.
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between two young Belgian architects have built a see-through church in the Belgian region of Haspengouw. The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium.
Situated on Vancouver’s waterfront with spectacular views of mountains, ocean, and parks, the Vancouver Convention Centre West is designed to bring together the natural ecology, vibrant local culture, and built environment, accentuating their interrelationships through the architecture. Opened in April 2009, the Convention Centre West expansion facility triples the total square footage and functional capacity as well as completes the development of the public realm on the waterfront.
The tenth-century palace city of Madinat al-Zahra is widely considered to be one of the most significant early Islamic archaeological sites in the world.
Making “the most beautiful building” for the Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía…
The Fogo Island Arts Corporation is a contemporary art venue on Fogo island and Change Islands off the north-east coast of Newfoundland, Canada
This proposal for a Student Center, located centrally in the master plan for the new Nanjing University in Xianlin.
The Mellat Park Cineplex project in Tehran is located in the far southwest side of Mellat Park.
“the lightcatcher,” conceived as a focal point that will become a new gathering place for the city
